The Show Must Go On: ITOps Lessons From the Events Industry

What does it take to deliver successful digital experiences at major events like concerts and conferences? With special guest Dominic Hampton—Managing Director at attend2IT—we’ll explore the dynamic world of event IT and key takeaways ITOps teams at enterprise companies can apply to their own events as well as in their day-to-day operations.

We’ll also discuss insights from recent incidents that impacted Azure, Microsoft 365, and more.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
01:34 Behind the Scenes of Event IT: Lessons for Enterprise ITOps
22:42 Microsoft Azure Incident
24:15 Microsoft 365 Disruption
25:31 Atlassian Bitbucket Cloud Outage
27:22 TikTok’s Shutdown
30:41 Get in Touch

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ABOUT DOMINIC HAMPTON
Dominic Hampton is the Managing Director of attend2IT, a UK-based company that provides comprehensive IT services for events of all kinds, from music festivals to major corporate conferences. An IT industry veteran, Dom has more than two decades of experience in the space and has worked on events for many leading companies and organizations. Learn more and connect with Dom on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/attend2/

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For additional insights, check out the links below:

The Internet Report blog: https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/internet-report-event-it-best-practices?utm_source=transistor&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=fy25q2_internetreport_q2fy25ep6_podcast

Webinar: Top Outages of 2024, Explained: Lessons in Digital Resilience: https://www.thousandeyes.com/resources/na-top-outages-2024-lessons-in-digital-resilience-webinar?utm_source=transistor&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=fy25q2_internetreport_q2fy25ep6_podcast

*NOTE: The discussed Atlassian Bitbucket Cloud outage occurred on January 21, starting at 3:30 PM (UTC), not January 22.

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